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 Entertainment | May 2007 
Hot Docs Wraps on Attendance High
 CBC Arts
| | A cluster of films about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict played to packed theatres last month at Hot Docs in Toronto, North America's largest international documentary festival. (HotDocs) |
More filmgoers than ever gravitated to this year's Toronto's Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, the organizers reported.
For its 14th annual edition, Hot Docs drew a whopping 68,000 people, a 33 per cent increase over the 2006 edition, organizers said in a statement.
They also reported a record number of industry delegates — nearly 2,000 — at this year's event.
The final award of the festival was also revealed: U.S. filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine picked up the Hot Docs Audience Award for their film War/Dance.
The documentary follows three orphans from Northern Uganda who triumph at a national dance and music contest.
The audience award is selected each year by ballots distributed at each festival screening. Movie-goers are invited to rate films on these ballots, which are then tallied and averaged.
Rounding out the Top 10 Hot Docs audience favourites are:
We Are Together(U.S.)
Garbage Warrior(U.K.)
The Suicide Tourist (Canada)
Forbidden Lie$ (Australia)
Nanking(U.S.)
City Idol (Canada)
Hear and Now(U.S.)
Chichester's Choice (Canada)
Forever (Netherlands)
Organizers announced the other Hot Docs winners from this year's edition at a ceremony Friday evening. Winners included The Body Builder and I (best Canadian feature documentary), German title Losers and Winners (best international feature documentary) and Toronto filmmaker Hubert Davis (Don Haig Award).
More than 129 films were screened this year at the festival, North America's largest celebration of documentary filmmaking. |
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